2009/4/19 MartinG <[email protected]> > My Freerunner has just been collecting dust for the last few months, > and after reading a bit regarding the buzz/echo hardware/software > problems, I sort of gave up the device. > > BUT, there has been enough complaining and moaning already, so I > thought I'd try to find out what use I can make of the device *today*. > > In my house I've got a server that holds all my music (mainly ogg, and > some mp3), I've got a MythTV backend (providing an upnp service > believe), I've got a wireless network (WPA2), and some radios/stereo > players in various rooms. Technically, the Freerunner is capable of > connecting to an upnp server of the wlan, right? And to decode ogg, > and send (stereo) output throught the jack, right? (if not ogg, I > guess I could do on-the-fly recoding of ogg on the server) >
Maybe a MythTV Frontend for freerunner will be a good idea. Is this exist from Tr3vin0 ? > > I've briefly search the list and the wiki and found this: > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications > but I didn't find out if such an app really exists. > > Thing is, I have not yet managed to get a system up an running and > connected to my wifi (I did have an early version of Qt sporadically > connected, but got too frustrated by the interface). To be honest, I'm > a bit lost regarding what distros currently exist and what distros are > working. > > I tried the QT Extended Improved, but I guess I failed at following > the somewhat long list of manual tweaking, so my FR doesn't currently > boot (don't get me wrong, I highly appreciate the work done by the > QtEI team). > > So what I ask is: > Is it possible to download an image, simply reflash the phone, connect > to my wlan, and opkg/ipkg install a player that is able play streams > from my local server? > (Is it possible to do *now*, or do I have to wait for teamA to finish > featureX and make them talk to teamB, etc. Please be honest, I've been > too optimistic for too long, and simply would like to know what are > the possibilities as of today) > > best regards, > MartinG > > -- > When you change the subject, also change the subject line, okay? > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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